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  • Public Affairs Officer Christopher Wurst at the Ballet and Music High School. (Photo State Department)

    Music and Ballet School Visit

    This time, Public Affairs Officer Christopher Wurst visited the Ballet and Music High School (“Konservatorij za glasbo in balet”) in Maribor. As with many of our visits, he discussed a wide range of topics with the students.

  • Ambassador Mussomeli speaks about ethical leadership at AmCham (Photo State Department)

    Ambassador Speaks about Ethical Leadership

    On June 12, the Ambassador Mussomeli gave remarks and participated in a roundtable discussion on “Ethical Leadership” at the American Chamber of Commerce in Slovenia’s June Business Breakfast in Brdo.

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  • LGBT Rights video conference participants in Ljubljana (Photo State Department)

    American author joins Ljubljana Pride Week

    The U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana invited Kevin Sessums, an American author, editor and actor from Forest, Mississippi to come to Slovenia to take part in Ljubljana Pride Week. The Pride Week’s Message for 2013 is “Freedom and Solidarity are a Same-Sex Couple.”

  • A special treat of the festival - the Biking Bridge (Photo State Department)

    Science can be full of fun and adventure

    If you are one of those who think math is boring and science is too complicated, please, think again. The U.S. Embassy supported a fantastic festival which shows new interesting and attractive ways of promoting science.

  • Opening remarks by the Ambassador Mussomeli at the School of Visual Arts exhibition
(Photo State Department)

    The School of Visual Arts Display of Posters

    U.S. Embassy supported the exhibition “Underground images: School of Visual Arts Subway Posters from 1947 to the Present,” displayed at the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana.

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  • Marie McDowell, Chief of the Embassy's Political, Economic and Commercial Section H. Martin McDowell spouse (Photo State Department)
    U.S. Diplomat Spouse Visits a School

    Marie McDowell, Chief of the Embassy's Political, Economic and Commercial Section H. Martin McDowell spouse, recently visited the School of Economics (Ekonomska šola) in Ljubljana. 

  • U.S. diplomat Joseph Costantino with “Ginnasio Gian Rinaldo Carli” students and teacher Mrs. Alenka Pišot.(Photo State Department)
    U.S. Diplomat Visits an Italian School in Slovenia

    U.S. diplomat Joseph Costantino visited “Ginnasio Gian Rinaldo Carli,” an Italian language high school in Koper.  

  • The Ambassador Joseph A. Mussomeli and Rebecca Ehalt (Photo State Department)
    Conversation Club at the Embassy

    Students from the Domžale High School Conversation Club, formed by Rebecca Ehalt, an American living in Slovenia, recently visited the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana.  

  • Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli attends a ceremony sponsored by "Koraki za Korakce" (Photo State Department)
    Ambassador at "Koraki za Korakce" Ceremony

    Ambassador Joseph and Mrs. Sharon Mussomeli attended a ceremony sponsored by "Koraki za Korakce" (Steps for Steps), a Maribor charity, for the donation of exercise equipment to Slave Klavore Primary School Maribor.  

  • Former Justice Minister of Slovenia Aleš Zalar, moderator Political-Economic Officer Pete Lyon, and Embassy guests (Photo State Department)
    Approaches to Successful Minority Integration

    In a groundbreaking digital hook-up, Judge Susan Ritchie Bolton, participating from Phoenix, AZ joined former Justice Minister of Slovenia Aleš Zalar, moderator Political-Economic Officer Pete Lyon, and Embassy guests for a discussion on successful minority integration and access to justice in the U.S. and Europe. 

  • Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli at the Maribor High School of Economics celebration (Photo State Department)
    "Life is Life"

    Ambassador Joseph and Mrs. Sharon Mussomeli attended the celebration of the publication of "Life is Life" -- a student volume of English prose and poetry -- at the Maribor High School of Economics (Srednja ekonomska šola) on May 23. 

  • Marine Security Guard Sgt. Neeley (Photo State Department)
    The Marine visits the school

    Marine Security Guard, Sgt. Neeley visited the School for Economics in Celje (“Ekonomska šola Celje”) where more than 100 students were waiting for him with a nice welcome program for him. 

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